The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-19
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| document until ne cdlbe 10 tht ii>ne OA0,
| One dav he went of on the circuit, and
Beck's old partner, thinking to do nice
thing. hunted the papers all out and care
! fully labeled them and put them alpha
| beficallv in order. When the old Judge
came home he looked al the neatly ar
RANGED pile and then strobe up and down
| the room with feelings apparently too
deem for utterance. lie said rothlng,
! however. and left the Office. When he
next came in he handed his young man
check and told him that that represented
| his share of the business up 20 that Time
and that the partnership was dissolved.
! lie then bundled his papers back into
the barrel and was happy. When
/ Beck came home he said 70 his clerk: My
| bow. YOU are an old maid, and If YOU don't
stop this internal order | viii have TO get
rid Of you Great minds can't run like
machines aud We don't want any of the
cogwhecl business about this Office
II is a good deal so with Lamar, save
that he has "a system among his subordi-
mates. and though he does not work in
this way himself he knows how to make
others work He keeps the entire run Of
The department and / looked over the
system today Every bureau and diyis-
ion gives him, rs | have said. report OF
each matter which has been before 10 and
what has been done as TO il boy the depart
ment These are so arranged that one
can see at glance just how any matter
stands. and they are handed over 10 La
mar printed on the typewriter He looks
over them, files them and can tell you
anything about any part Of the depart
ment 40 q moments notice As 10 ap-
pOntments, he has an letters bricied for
him. and this Is so with much other mat
ter which comes before the interior In
this way he saves himself days of work,
and ia the cdse OF presidential appoint
mcnts the president is always furnished
briefs Of the various recommendations
and the status of a man character.
President Cleveland is not always salts
fed with the briefs alone, and some
times calls for the letters in the more
important matters Secretary Lamar die
tates these briefs himself The extent Of
this work can be appreciated only by en-
tering the appointment division Of the
interior department. a large room IS
lined from floor 20 ceiling with pigeon
holes. and each of these pigeon holes is
packed full OF recommendations for
appointments TO Office. They are all
carefully classified, perfectly access
sole and the applications are kept Oh hle
for years. Since 1919 the system has
been in use. and doubt not If the papers
were gone over 10 would be found that
many men now prominent have asked Tor
employment under the government in
their earlier days
Lamar is as irregular ia DIS habits OF
life as ne is in his work. Tie has the
stomach of an ostrich and his digestive
organs are such that they wiz grind up
almost any kind of food into life giving
blood. He IS not regular as 90 his meals,
and ne is liable 10 take his lunch at I'D
clock "a the morning. in the afternoon
or II at night just as the case may Doe.
lie Is not a gastr0u0me. and he often for
gets his meals altogether His chief clerk,
Col Jonas. tells me an incident of this
which occurred while he was in the
United States senate. He met Lamar
coming out of the senate chamber one
evening with most disguised look on his
face He said. ] ava sick and am going
up into Maryland for TWO on three days
Col Jonas, WHO was then his private
secretary, knowing bis habits. asked him
IL H. had bad his lunch Lamar replied thar
be had not, that hs had become interest
ol iu something and that be- had forgotten
an about if. Jonas chen asked him II he
had eaten any breakfast. and Lamar rec
piled no.. Chat Dee had intended fo break
fast at tine senate. bnt was .0 busy that
be had mot done -o Upon further is-
luiry 10 wa. found thaf he had not eaten
ems supper che might before for some
reason. and DO WAS now about O'Clock in
lnc evening following Mr. Jonas said.
u Us easy to see what is the matter with
sou. senator. You are not sick at all;
you are only hungry and weak. You
have not eaten anything for two days,
and 30 is no wonder chat you feel badly.
All you want is q good dinner
Lamar thought SO too and he at once
proposed that they g0 and g-t something
10 eat They entered n little hotel near
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad depot,
and upon Lamar calling for % dinner inc
landlord replied that he had nothing
cooked except some hard boiled eggs and
sandwiches. Lamar did not like the
looks of the fly specked sandwiches, but
be made q savage attack on the bard
boiled eggs. He ate nine of these, wash
iug them down with two bottles Of ginger
aie. and when he got through he said he
felt tipt0p lie made no further mention
Of lis sickness or trip to Maryland, and
apparently had no trouble IN the digestion
Of the hard boiled eggs.
Nevertheless Lamar likes "a good din
ner, though he rarely orders one himself
il may be that Lamars admiration for
newspapers arises from The fact that the
only failure of his life was ia connection
with newspaper work. lie tells the story
il very laughable way. shortly after
the war closed sam Thompson, the editor
Of The oxford Falcon, came 20 Lamar
and asked him 20 furnish q leading edi-
tOrial for his paper once a week Lamar
thought the newspaper then his sphere
and be agreed 20 the proposition. He had
great ideas Of reforming the press; that
tRe press was power, and evidently
thought that the Lamar editorial would |
turn Mssis- .ppi upside down and chat n |
It's new position 70 would be nothing el e /
hut true beautiful and good He linen /
commented To grind ont his editorial by
the Yard and he SAYS "At first Victor /
came himself after my manuscript Tie
second week or 50 he sent a boy aud tle |
third or fourth week / had 10 send ms /
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